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The opposite of love is not hate, as many believe, but rather indifference. Nothing communicates disinterest more clearly than dis...tancing. A child cannot feel valued by parents who are forever absorbed in their own affairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful stru...ggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins--mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When autonomy is respected, the two-year-old does not carry this unfinished task into later stages of growth. In adolescence, the ...youngster will again concentrate on independence, but he won't have to blast the roof off the second time around if it is already well established.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Every child has an inner timetable for growth--a pattern unique to him. . . . Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. I...t is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »